Church of England to accept gay marriage if one changes gender after wedding - stupid!
The Church of England says it will accept same-sex marriage, but only if the spouses were a man and woman before changing gender. What a foolish non-biblical incoherent statement!
The advice means couples will be under no pressure from the church to divorce if one of the transitions. Transgender activists have called the significant shift in direction ‘encouraging’ but accuse the church of still not accepting gender reassignment. The change was revealed ahead of today’s General Synod of bishops – the national assembly of the Church of England.
THIS IS SIMPLY MADNESS.
THIS CHURCH IS NO LONGER A CHURCH
A question on whether the church would accept a marriage involving a transgender person is one of more than 100 to be addressed at today’s meeting in York. Prudence Dailey, the churchwarden of Oxford’s St Michael at the North Gate, asked if the church’s definition of marriage as a ‘lifelong and exclusive union between one man and one woman’ still applies if one partner has transitioned. It is thought Christine Hardman, the Bishop of Newcastle will say the church has no right to pull these couples apart.
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has given his support for transition within marriage. She is expected to say:
‘When a couple marries in the church they promise before God to be faithful to each other for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health – come what may, although we preach compassion if they find this too much to bear.
‘Secondly, never in the history of the Church has divorce been actively recommended as the way to resolve a problem. ‘We have always prioritized fidelity, reconciliation, and forgiveness, with divorce as a concession when staying together proves humanly unbearable. ‘In the light of those two points, if a couple wishes to remain married after one partner has transitioned, who are we to put them asunder?’
Ms. Hardman is head of the pastoral advisory group, which was set up to try and bridge the gap between traditional church members and LGBT activists.
THE GAP CAN ONLY BE REMOVED BY THE REPENTANCE OF SIN NOT ACCEPTANCE OF SIN.
THIS CHURCH IS NO LONGER A CHURCH
